Going GUI...er

[Jens John]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, at 09:41, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
> Suggestions? What does everyone else do?

If you're already SSHing to your mutt instance, that is, using email online-only, it doesn't like like webmail would be the worst bet you could make. I can recommend Fastmail.com; their webmail application can be driven 100% by keyboard shortcuts [1] in all modes (index, reading, composition), the UI is very fast and response, layout-customizable in some degree, and their email capabilities are pretty much complete (MFA with app passwords, standards-compliant IMAP, Sieve/filters, SPF/DKIM, identity management, they have labels/tags a la G-Suite as well in their beta by way of their JMAP implementation). When compared to G-Suite, Office365, Rainmail, Roundcube, Zoho, Open-Xchange, and a few others I've tried, Fastmail is the fastest and most power-user friendly solution there is at the moment.

You buy these advantages with a lack of customizability: there's more of a take-it-or-leave-it component to it than to mutt, but I think that the same goes for Thunderbird, Sylpheed, and other GUI clients.

My personal setup is actually dual: I use Fastmail in the web client most of the time, and for server side search, but as part of my offline strategy, I always have a local setup with mutt, notmuch, 100% synced IMAP content using isync/mbsync. Effectively, I use both mutt on the desktop and webmail on the web. Works great together. 

So from personal experience, I'd recommend a dual mutt-desktop+imap plus webmail+imap setup that gives you all the advantages and none of the drawbacks. You'll have to evaluate the webmail offerings first, of course.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/kbshortcuts.html